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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 5, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - ACC commits to communion's peace, justice and  reconciliation
work
* TOP STORY - 'Evolving' covenant adoption process makes for ambiguity
* TOP STORY - Williams calls for more cohesive, theologically aware
communion
* TOP STORY - Rogation Sunday is topic of May 17 bulletin inserts
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Newport Beach congregation vows to take
property dispute to U.S. Supreme Court
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: ACC Media Briefing on the Anglican covenant  adoption
process
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Archbishop of Canterbury on the Windsor  Continuation
Group report
* DAYBOOK - May 6, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - A Christianity Worth Believing

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>TOP STORIES

ACC commits to communion's peace, justice and reconciliation work

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The representatives of the
Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting here on May 5 passed a  series of
resolutions dealing with issues ranging from translation of Anglican
theological works to the ongoing bloodshed in Sudan.

The resolutions came from some of the Anglican Communion's officially
sanctioned networks. The ACC recognizes groups of Anglicans who want to
organize formally around a ministry or issue and monitors the networks'
efforts. The council is meeting from May 2 to 12.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107373_ENG_HTM.htm

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'Evolving' covenant adoption process makes for ambiguity

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] Two leaders in the  development
of the proposed Anglican covenant said here May 5 that the process which
might be used for Anglican entities to adopt the document is "evolving,"
even as that evolution has made for some seemingly contradictory  statements
in the past days.

Anglican Communion Deputy Secretary General Gregory Cameron told  reporters
"we're feeling our way" in terms of the implications for those provinces
that decide not to sign onto the covenant, whether entities other than  the
provinces which are now members of the Anglican Consultative Council (as
listed in the council's constitution) would be allowed to adopt the  covenant
and whether there would be a time limit for provinces to decide.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107370_ENG_HTM.htm

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Williams calls for more cohesive, theologically aware communion

Anglican Consultative Council considers recommendations for  strengthening
bonds

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] Archbishop of Canterbury  Rowan
Williams told the representatives of the Anglican Consultative Council  (ACC)
meeting here May 5 that he wants the Anglican Communion be "more  cohesive
and more theologically aware."

During his 40-minute presentation on the recommendations of the Windsor
Continuation Group's final report, Williams said that he does not have
"complete and absolute confidence that the Anglican Communion in  something
like the form it had 20 years ago is going to survive this crisis" over
authority and differing theological perspectives.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107368_ENG_HTM.htm

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Rogation Sunday is topic of May 17 bulletin inserts

[Episcopal News Service] Rogationtide, the celebration of God's bounty  and
the fruitfulness of the earth on the sixth Sunday of Easter and the days
leading up to the Day of Ascension, is gaining new popularity as  increasing
numbers of Episcopal churches sponsor or host community garden projects,
both to raise healthy food and to provide for those who can't afford to  buy
fresh produce. Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for May 17 trace  the
purpose of Rogation Days, drawing from the writings of 17th-century  priest
and poet George Herbert.

Bulletin inserts are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm.

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Newport Beach congregation vows to take property dispute to
U.S. Supreme Court

Diocese seeks recovery of legal fees from St. James' Church

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Leaders of St. James' Anglican Church in  Newport
Beach, California, who in January lost a bid to retain their property  after
disaffiliating from the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Los Angeles
(http://www.ladiocese.org), on May 5 said they intend to appeal the  ruling
to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107374_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Videos: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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ACC media briefing on the Anglican covenant adoption process

[Episcopal News Service] Anglican Communion Deputy Secretary General  Gregory
Cameron and retired Province of the West Indies Archbishop Drexel Gomez
address the media May 5 about the adoption process of the proposed  Anglican
covenant, a set of principles intended to deepen the bonds between  provinces
of the Anglican Communion. Gomez served a chair and Cameron as secretary  of
the Covenant Design Group.

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Archbishop of Canterbury on the Windsor Continuation Group report

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams  addresses
members of the Anglican Consultative Council May 5 in Kingston, Jamaica,
about the recent report from the Windsor Continuation Group which deals  with
issues such as the moratoria on same-gender blessings, cross-border
interventions and the ordination of gay and lesbian people to the
episcopate.

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Videos: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 6, 2009...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On May 6, 1704, non-Anglicans were excluded from
membership in South Carolina's assembly.

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>CATALYST

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weaves together theological reflections, Christian history, and his own
story of faith transformation.

Pagitt invites readers to follow him as he tells the story of his
un-churched childhood, his life-altering conversion at age 16, his  intense
involvement in the church, and his growing sense of unease with the  version
of Christianity he was living. On page after page, Pagitt lays out his
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